Both Uses of
analyze
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Moby Dick
- * *With reference to the Polar bear, it may possibly be urged by him who would fain go still deeper into this matter, that it is not the whiteness, separately regarded, which heightens the intolerable hideousness of that brute; for, analysed, that heightened hideousness, it might be said, only rises from the circumstance, that the irresponsible ferociousness of the creature stands invested in the fleece of celestial innocence and love; and hence, by bringing together two such opposite emotions in our minds, the Polar bear frightens us with so unnatural a contrast.†
Chpt 40-42analysed = examined in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyzed.
- To analyse it, would seem impossible.†
Chpt 40-42 *analyse = examine in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyze.
Definitions:
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(1)
(analyze) to examine and consider something in detail to better understand it
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, analyze may specifically mean to determine chemical components or to psychoanalyze. Very rarely, you may see the British spell analyzes as analyses--which Americans use as the plural spelling for analysis.